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- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores local knowledge and practices in soil management and investment that have frequently gone unrecognised in assessments of soil fertility transformations and trends. Case material…Publication Date 2005
- soil
- Africa
- Local/indigenous knowledge
- soil fertility
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAgronomic analyses of soil dynamics in Africa have been found to be too simplifying and lacking any perspective on the critical role of farmers. Yet soil degradation is widespread and serious, and in…Publication Date 2005
- soil degradation
- Nutrient depletion
- agricultural production
- farming systems
- Price policies
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- Soil Condition
- soil erosion
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper uses the concept of sustainable development to examine the utilisation of wildlife resources at Moremi Game Reserve (MGR) and Khwai community area (NG 18/19) in the Okavango Delta,…Publication Date 2005
- Wildlife resources
- Resource conflicts
- Sustainable development
- community-based natural resource management
- socio-economic aspects
- eco - tourism
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA great many debates have grown up around the notion of desertification as a process of degradation that affects the arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones of the globe. A fundamental and continuing…Publication Date 2005
- desertification
- Paradigms
- climate
- rangeland ecology
- Livelihoods approach
- environmental policy
- rangelands
- policies
- land use
- ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIssues of equity and justice are high on international agendas dealing with the impacts of global climate change. But what are the implications of climate change for equity and justice amongst…Publication Date 2005
- climate change
- adaptation
- Justice
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- stakeholders
- community based resource management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSustainable natural resource management requires inputs from both the natural and the social sciences. Since natural and social systems are inter-related and inter-dependent, it is essential that…Publication Date 2010
- Water allocation decision making
- Geographical information systems
- Meta-modelling
- Data integration
- spatial analysis
- river basins
- Inkomati Water Management Area
- GIS
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- irrigation
- Mpumalanga province
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Mozambique
- Library Collection RecordThe impacts of climate change, drought and desertification are closely interlinked, and most acutely experienced by populations whose livelihoods depend principally on natural resources. Given the…Publication Date 2009
- adaptation
- policy
- climate change
- desertification
- drought
- pollution
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing a human security perspective, we investigate how the history of land tenure changes has driven sustainability in southern African savannas. The paper examines four countries-Botswana,…Publication Date 2009
- Human security
- land tenure
- savannas
- sustainability
- legislation
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe need to implement sustainable resource management regimes for semi-arid and arid rangelands is acute as non-adapted grazing strategies lead to irreversible environmental problems such as…Publication Date 2009
- adaptation
- climate change
- Arid rangelands
- Namibia
- Bio-economic simulation approach
- land use
- sustainability
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- grazing
- modelling
- ecology
- savanna
- stocking rates
- decision support systems
- vegetation dynamics
- Namibia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe quantified livestock (cattle, shoats, horses and donkeys) losses to lions (Panthera leo) and attitudes to lions, livestock losses and tourism among livestock owners, village residents and tourism…Publication Date 2009
- communities
- cattle
- Benefit
- predation
- compensation
- eco - tourism
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- Botswana
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study looks at the impact of subdivision and sedentarization of pastoral lands on wildlife numbers and production in a savanna ecosystem of southern Kenya. The study uses aerial counts over a…Publication Date 2009
- land fragmentation
- rangelands
- Maasai
- settlement
- conservation
- land reform
- land use
- savanna
- ecosystem dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- wildlife
- management
- grazing
- grasslands
- socio-economic aspects
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe construction and validation of a user-friendly index to measure attitude of landowners towards conservation of Overberg Coastal Renosterveld (OCR), a critically endangered, distinctive grassy-…Publication Date 2005
- landowners
- Perceived benefit
- Willingness to conserve
- Cronbach Alpha
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- grasslands
- conservation agriculture
- land use
- eco - tourism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA hybrid approach comprising literature review, field investigation and interpretation of multi-date panchromatic aerial photographs at the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales over four time slices between…Publication Date 2005
- population density
- Environmental deterioration
- Long-term trends
- remote sensing
- Aerial Photographs
- socio-economic aspects
- erosion
- degradation
- rangeland condition
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn investigation into the spread of two alien wattle species (Acacia mearnsii and Acacia dealbata) in rural parts of the Drakensberg region of South Africa and the importance of the trees to the…Publication Date 2005
- Acacia
- Green manure
- land management
- trees
- encroachment
- invasive plants
- socio-economic aspects
- medicinal plants
- management
- Poverty
- upliftment projects
- sustainability
- landscape ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn situ rainwater harvesting (RWH) belong to the promising practices to support sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa facing climate change impacts. However, appropriate indicators for their…Publication Date 2009
- Ecosystem service
- climate change
- biodiversity
- soil and water conservation
- Downstream effects
- ecohydrology
- Soil Condition
- rainfall
- conservation
- sustainability
- soil nutrients
- species richness
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordProduction-oriented research in the second half of the 20th century made impressive contributions to technical developments which helped to meet the food requirements of an expanding world population…Publication Date 2005
- Grassland science
- research priorities
- Tertiary education
- Agro-ecology
- environment
- grasslands
- management
- land use
- biodiversity
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiodiversity conservation is a challenge within developing regions of the world. Landscape heterogeneity is largely directed by interconnected economic and social systems, which are largely driven by…Publication Date 2004
- Avian richness
- Habitat proportion
- KwaZulu-Natal
- land-use
- Landscape metric pattern
- multiple regression
- Socio-economic development
- southern Africa
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn analysis tool was developed to simulate primary productivity and crop yields for both present and possible future climate conditions. Southern Africa was delineated into 712 relatively homogeneous…Publication Date 1993
- plant production
- agriculture
- climate change
- soil
- vegetation dynamics
- hydrology
- modelling
- GIS
- rainfall
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe `facts' about environmental problems are usually left to the scientists to discern. There is increasing recognition, however, that scientific reality is not generated from objective study…Publication Date 1996
- degradation
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe basic reasons for the present unsatisfactory structure of agricultural R & D in Southern Africa and particularly in South Africa, are the focus of R & D on the commercial sector of…Publication Date 1995
- socio-economic aspects
- stakeholders
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGross energy and crude protein balances of cattle in traditional systems and ranching in eastern Botswana have been estimated. The calculations show that ranching is more productive on a per animal…Publication Date 1986
- cattle
- plant production
- animal production
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe renewable natural resources sector in Africa is of particular importance because of the relatively high proportion of livelihoods that it supports in comparison to other developing regions.…Publication Date 1996
- Renewable
- Natural
- resources
- Africa
- policy
- economics
- sustainability
- policies
- rural areas
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPoverty in Africa is primarily a rural phenomenon. Its growing incidence is partly due to slow growth in GDP induced by economic policies that discriminated against agriculture. Urban bias in social…Publication Date 1992
- socio-economic aspects
- Poverty
- rural areas
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn spite of good rains in 1985, much of Africa is still dependent on food aid and millions of people remain displaced from their homes. The reasons for this situation are not climatically related.…Publication Date 1986
- management
- drought
- degradation
- desertification
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- rehabilitation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMuch of the spread of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) as an emerging family of approaches and methods has been lateral, South-South, through experiential learning and changes in behavior, with…Publication Date 1994
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- subsistence agriculture
- household income studies
- policies
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA development path for South Africa that will create jobs and reduce poverty must include the encouragement of greater labor intensity in agriculture, especially of smallholder farming, which was…Publication Date 1993
- land reform
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- Poverty
- rural areas
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe conventional view of 34;traditional 34; or informal systems of African land rights is that they impede agricultural development, and that land titling or registration is needed to encourage land…Publication Date 1990
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- economics
- land-use
- pastoralism
- soils
- legislation
- management
- stakeholders
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEvidence from Asia suggests that agricultural growth, through a network of consumption and production linkages, can generate sizable income and employment multipliers in the rural nonfarm economy. In…Publication Date 1989
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- rural areas
- Economic Aspects
- policies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA fundamental issue in many LDCs is the degree to which natural resource mismanagement is caused by common property arrangements. This view has led to widespread attempts to "privatize"…Publication Date 1986
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- Sustainable development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordArguing that increased attention to the problems of women farmers in Africa can help solve both urban and rural food supply problems, this paper builds its case on a close examination of the…Publication Date 1983
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- upliftment projects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTwo of the Australian acacias that are weeds in South Africa are also exploited commercially and the desirability of exoticAcacia spp. is disputed. This conflict has created problems for the…Publication Date 1991
- Alien invasive species
- Weeds
- socio-economic aspects
- biological control
- invertebrates
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPopulation pressures within southern Africa are forcing people to increasingly crop land of a diverse and fragile nature where the risk of environmental degradation is high and current yields are low…Publication Date 1993
- soil moisture
- no-till
- climate
- Soil Condition
- soil fertility
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe large human and livestock populations in relation to the land area, coupled with the [`]user-right' land tenure system, makes the land use planning process in the communal lands of Zimbabwe…Publication Date 1990
- management
- land use
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper aims, first, to examine critically Kenya's economic, political, and planning systems, since they can be identified as the causal factors producing many of Kenya's environmental…Publication Date 1988
- economics
- politics
- policies
- legislation
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany areas of East Africa show signs of misuse of natural resources by man. An improved use of these resources can be made if land use is integrated within the boundaries of a natural ecosystem,…Publication Date 1987
- conservation
- land use
- pastoralism
- agriculture
- ecosystem ecology
- eco - tourism
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOf all the continents, Africa has the highest proportion of land fit for agriculture. The principal vegetative cover on this land is grass, which, when it is well managed, gives good protection…Publication Date 1971
- grasslands
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined the perceptions and realities of land degradation in a communal ranching area, Otjimbingwe, in arid Namibia (in south-western Africa). It is commonly perceived that large-scale…Publication Date 2000
- land degradation
- Namibia
- livestock
- ranching
- communal pastoralism
- degradation
- communal farming
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- rainfall
- drought
- stocking rates
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecent political changes in South Africa have required a new approach to project management, one that includes community involvement at all levels of project planning, decision-making and execution.…Publication Date 1998
- Mier Rural Area
- Kalahari
- South Africa
- desertification
- Community involvement
- rangeland degradation
- rangeland rehabilitation
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- degradation
- rehabilitation
- management
- community based resource management
- socio-economic aspects
- decision support systems
- stakeholders
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the advantages of the traditional cattlepost system against the recent drive towards the fencing of Botswana's rangelands and the establishment of privatised, commercial beef…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- degradation
- Kalahari
- Cattle Ranching
- Hunter-gatherers
- Botswana
- cattle
- subsistence agriculture
- commercial agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Economic Aspects
- politics
- policies
- grazing
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn semi-arid and arid magisterial (administrative) districts (n = 45) in the Cape Province, South Africa, there has been a mean 44·4 ± 14·6% (S.D.) reduction in the stocking rates of domestic…Publication Date 1994
- livestock
- animal production
- stocking rates
- rainfall
- drought
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the context of climate change mitigation and poverty reduction, it has been argued that biogas energy is relevant, as it is economically and ecologically useful. In the 1980s, biogas use played an…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- Biogas
- socio-economic aspects
- policy
- rural women
- household income studies
- subsistence agriculture
- rural areas
- Burundi
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavannas are the most extensive biome in the tropics. These extremely dynamic coupled socio-ecological ecosystems are shaped by a long history of interaction with humans, fire, climate and wildlife,…Publication Date 2010
- savanna
- biodiversity
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordThe notion of a threshold of dangerous climate change has been central to national and international efforts to address climate risks. However, the focus on a single target has now become an obstacle…Publication Date 2014
- Dangerous Climate Change
- Climate Risk Management
- Climate Policy
- Risk Perception
- mitigation
- adaptation
- socio-economic aspects
- climate change
- global warming
- management
- Library Collection RecordEthnobotany describes the relationship between people and plants. Research illustrating this relationship, both in New Zealand and abroad, is largely scattered throughout a number of disciplines…Publication Date 2013
- Ethnobotany
- socio-economic aspects
- ecology
- New Zealand
- Library Collection RecordIn mobile pastoralism, strategies of mobility are highly heterogeneous within communities; some herders are frequently mobile and others are not. Moreover, pastoral mobility changes over time,…Publication Date 2010
- Mobile pastoralism
- Mobility
- Herders strategy
- Multi-agent model
- Co-existence mechanism
- rangelands
- pastoralism
- decision support systems
- subsistence agriculture
- drought
- socio-economic aspects
- Mongolia
- China
- Library Collection RecordGlobal warming is one of the most profound challenges for human beings during the 21st century. The world's leading scientists have identified that warming of the climate system is unequivocal,…Publication Date 2013
- climate change
- greenhouse gases
- global warming
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- carbon dioxide
- Methane
- soils
- land use
- management
- carbon sequestration
- modelling
- monitoring
- Tsukuba
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordWe explored the relationships between various socio-economic variables and the prevalence and density of invasive alien species (IAS) on a global scale using country-level data sets. We did this by…Publication Date 2010
- economic development
- gross domestic product
- human development index
- invasion
- management
- road network
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- policies
- Alien invasive species
- Library Collection RecordLaunched in October 2009, The Regional Livelihoods Advocacy Project (REGLAP) is a Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission (ECHO) funded project working to reduce the vulnerability of…Publication Date 2011
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- policies
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis project, developed by TrustAfrica, aims to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), signed by 53 African governments, which commits…Publication Date 2010
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- decision support systems
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordExecutive Summary: The training workshop for media practitioners on Climate Change Fact, Communication and Adaptation Strategies was organised by Global Unification, The Gambia (GU), a youth-led…Publication Date 2012
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- community based resource management
- The Gambia
- Africa